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00:00 In this top 5 video we will discuss a rather unusual theme.
00:18 I think everyone heard about Andrei Chikatilo, probably the most well-known serial killer
00:23 in Russian history.
00:25 He committed more than 50 murders, but some animals would have laughed at that number
00:30 if they could.
00:31 So we're gonna talk about the beasts who killed people not only for food.
00:43 The first incident took place in a Japanese village of Sankibetsu in December of 1915.
00:49 In that area lived a huge brown bear called Kesagake.
00:53 Every now and then he entered the village to eat some corn which was grown by the villagers.
00:58 Eventually they got annoyed with the impudent beast and decided to kill him.
01:01 But they only managed to wound Kesagake.
01:04 He ran away into the mountains to heal his wounds and to build up the anger.
01:08 A few weeks later he came back to kill a daughter and a wife of one of the villagers.
01:13 He dragged the woman's corpse into the forest.
01:15 30 men gathered and entered the forest to kill the beast.
01:19 It was easy to track him down as the blood track was fresh.
01:23 They met Kesagake and shot him, but couldn't kill him again.
01:26 The brown bear retreated and realized that the village remained unprotected as all the
01:31 guardsmen were trying to catch him.
01:33 He returned to Sankibetsu and detected the Miyoki family house where he killed two children
01:38 and a pregnant woman.
01:39 According to the witnesses, she begged the bear for mercy, but it was useless.
01:44 When the hunters realized their mistake they came back to the village.
01:47 The Miyoki house looked more like a slaughterhouse.
01:50 The villagers were horrified and the majority of the guardsmen simply ran away.
01:55 In several days Kesagake killed seven more men.
01:58 In the end hunters from the nearby villages and towns gathered to kill the beast, which
02:02 they did, after few days of tracking him down.
02:05 Horrible murders finished, but a lot of those who were wounded and injured by the bear died.
02:11 Similar story happened in India in 1957.
02:14 A young bear was injured by people and grew up being very angry and aggressive.
02:19 One day he decided to get even with humans and started to attack everyone he met.
02:24 He didn't eat the majority of his victims, so that means that the hunger wasn't his motivation.
02:30 By the moment the beast was shot down he had killed 12 men.
02:33 These stories are indeed horrifying, but paraphrasing the words from the Scorpion's song, the worst
02:39 is yet to come.
02:48 The following story became the basis for three feature movies and a book.
02:52 As part of the construction of a railway linking Uganda with the Indian Ocean at Kilindi harbor,
02:57 in March of 1898 the British started building a railway bridge over the Tsavo river in Kenya.
03:03 The project was led by Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson.
03:07 All was going fine, but one day the Indian workers started missing at night.
03:11 Nobody could guess why they were disappearing.
03:14 But then they learned that those were two, mainly male Tsavo lions, who stopped the campsite,
03:20 dragged the workers from their tents and devoured them.
03:23 A group of hunters was sent to track the predators down and kill them, but they failed to succeed.
03:29 During the next several months of construction, the lion attacks became a daily routine.
03:34 After some time the beasts became so insolent that they started to eat their prey just a
03:39 few meters from the camp.
03:41 Crews tried to scare off the lions and build campfires and bombas or "thorn fences" around
03:46 their camp for protection to keep the manacres out.
03:49 To no avail, the lions leaped over or crawled through the thorn fences.
03:54 Patterson then invented the skillful trap.
03:56 It was made of a train car, which was divided in two parts by a steel railing in the middle.
04:02 In one half there was an alive beak, sitting with a loaded rifle.
04:06 One of the lions got trapped inside the other half but unfortunately the poor fellow with
04:10 a gun got so scared, that he accidentally shot the lock and the beast escaped.
04:16 After that the man-eaters started to attack the campsite even at daytime.
04:20 Because of the size and ruthless aggression of the lions, the workers thought they were
04:24 demons.
04:25 Eventually the Indians abandoned the area and the construction of the bridge stopped.
04:30 After that, Lieutenant Colonel Patterson decided that he had had it with these lions and went
04:35 into the wild lands to kill the monsters.
04:38 He found the lion's lair, a cave near the Tsaba river, which was filled with the remains
04:42 of dozens of people.
04:44 This was very unusual because normally lions don't have lairs at all.
04:48 Also Patterson found out that the predators ate less than a half of all the workers they
04:53 had dragged from the camp.
04:55 So this means they were killing people just for fun.
04:58 After repeated unsuccessful attempts, he shot the first lion on December 9th of 1898.
05:05 Twenty days later, the second lion was found and killed.
05:08 The construction crew returned and finished the bridge in February of 1899.
05:18 This story also inspired scriptwriters.
05:21 It took place in a former French province of Gévaudan between 1764 and 1767.
05:27 In June of 1764, a young girl who was pasturing sheep in the field was brutally murdered.
05:33 One month later, two kids were found dead.
05:36 During the following two months, five more children were killed.
05:39 Two local hunters managed to track down the beast and even wound it, but the killer ran
05:45 away.
05:46 After some time, he came back and continued to terrorize the province.
05:49 He got a nickname of "The Beast of Gévaudan".
05:52 When the number of attacks became really scary, the government officials became involved in
05:56 this matter.
05:57 Military was sent into the woods of Gévaudan to kill the man-eater, but they failed.
06:02 In October, two hunters met the animal and shot it, but the predator managed to escape
06:06 once again.
06:08 This encounter enraged the man-eater, and he started to kill people even more frequently.
06:13 Most of the victims remained almost untouched, so the hunters came to a conclusion that the
06:17 Beast of Gévaudan was killing people for pleasure and fun.
06:21 In April of 1765, the animal attacked a group of four children and killed them all.
06:27 During the following year, more than 100 attacks and more than 50 deaths were recorded.
06:32 Curiously enough, the beast killed only humans, even if the cattle was around.
06:37 Another strange thing in this case was that nobody could clearly describe the beast.
06:42 Witnesses' statements greatly vary.
06:44 One said that it was a wolf dog, the others claimed it was a leopard or a panther.
06:49 Some of them believed it was a hyena, which escaped from a menagerie of some sort.
06:54 Although most people are sure that hyenas are cowardly scavengers, in fact, they are
06:58 quite dangerous predators.
07:00 For example, in 2003, one particular hyena terrorized the territory of Malawi in Africa.
07:06 Because of her attacks, 4,000 people abandoned their homes.
07:10 Nevertheless, this problem was solved pretty quickly, which cannot be said about the Beast
07:14 of Gévaudan.
07:15 It ignored all the baits and escaped all the traps and all the battews.
07:20 For three years, nobody could catch or kill the predator.
07:23 With all that being said, it's safe to say that it wasn't just a mad manager.
07:27 It was a very clever and witty animal.
07:30 That's why the peasants were sure that they were dealing with a werewolf.
07:34 But in the end, all the specialists and hunters came to a conclusion that it was just an extremely
07:39 aggressive and large grey wolf.
07:41 The other problem was that the area was inhabited by thousands of wolves.
07:45 Because of that, the officials ordered to kill every wolf the hunters could find.
07:50 A ruthless extermination of innocent animals began.
07:53 Entire wolf packs were slaughtered, but the Beast of Gévaudan was still alive because
07:58 more and more dead human bodies were found in the fields and forests.
08:02 The number of these attacks made people think that they were more than one animal.
08:07 Some witnesses said that they saw the Beast accompanied by another man-eater.
08:12 There were even reports that once or twice some mysterious person was seen beside the
08:17 killer wolf.
08:18 This version inspired the scriptwriters of the movie called "Brotherhood of the Wolf".
08:23 The bloody story of the Beast of Gévaudan ended on June 19, 1767 during one of the most
08:29 massive battues.
08:30 One of the hunters called Jean Chastel managed to kill the man-eater.
08:35 Being a very religious person, Jean loaded his rifle with the blessed silver bullets.
08:39 During a rest, a huge grey wolf jumped out of the forest near Chastel.
08:44 Without any hesitation, he shot the animal twice.
08:47 Upon being opened, the animal's stomach was shown to contain human remains of a girl which
08:51 had disappeared the day before.
08:53 By the moment the Beast of Gévaudan was killed, it had murdered more than 100 habitants of
08:58 the province.
09:04 The next character of our video differs from the others.
09:08 The thing is that he is still alive.
09:10 We are talking about the scariest man-eater of our time - an old large Nile crocodile
09:15 from Burundi called Gustave.
09:17 Since Gustave has not been captured, his exact length and weight is unknown but in 2002 it
09:23 was stated that he could be easily more than 6 meters long and weigh more than 900 kilograms.
09:29 He is rumored to have killed as many as 300 humans from the banks of the Ruzizi river
09:34 and the northern shores of Lake Tanganyika.
09:37 According to a popular local warning, he is said to hunt and leave his victims' corpses
09:41 uneaten.
09:43 This means he is not just a predator but a serial killer.
09:46 Gustave was estimated to be around 100 years old in order to achieve such outstanding size.
09:52 However, furthermore, careful observation of Gustave revealed a complete set of teeth
09:56 when he opened his mouth.
09:58 Since a 100-year-old crocodile should be nearly toothless, according to the documentary film
10:03 about him, he was estimated to be probably no older than 60 and likely still growing.
10:09 More than once people tried to hunt down the monstrous reptile but all the attempts were
10:13 unsuccessful.
10:15 Gustave is known for the three bullet scars on his body.
10:18 His right shoulder blade is also known to be deeply wounded.
10:21 In 2004 they tried to capture the crocodile with the help of a 9-meter long steel cage
10:26 trap and different kinds of bait but none of them attracted Gustave or any other animal.
10:32 All the photos with the dead body of the man-eater are fake because in June of 2015 one resident
10:39 claimed that Gustave dragged an adult bull buffalo on a riverbank.
10:48 And our number one pick for today's list is the Champawat Tiger.
10:52 The Champawat Tiger was a female Bengal tiger responsible for an estimated 436 deaths in
11:00 Nepal and the Kumaon area of India, mostly during the 19th century.
11:05 Her attacks have been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest number
11:10 of fatalities from a tiger.
11:11 The man-eater began her attacks in a region of Nepal close to the Himalayas during the
11:16 late 19th century with people being ambushed by dozens as they walked through the jungle.
11:22 Hunters were sent in to kill the beast but she managed to evade them.
11:26 After the number of deaths exceeded 200, the Nepalese army was called in.
11:31 Despite failing to capture or kill the tiger, soldiers managed to force the tiger to abandon
11:35 her territory and drive her across the border to India where she continued her killing activities
11:41 in the Kumaon district not far from the town of Champawat.
11:44 She eventually grew bolder and began killing people in broad daylight and crawling around
11:49 villages.
11:50 Life across the region grew paralyzed with men often refusing to leave their huts for
11:55 work after hearing the tiger's roars from the forest.
11:59 In 1907, after the number of the animal's victims exceeded 400, the Indian government
12:05 was in despair.
12:06 Their last hope was a legendary British-Indian hunter and tracker Jim Corbett, known for
12:12 killing dozens of man-eating tigers and leopards.
12:15 He was a true professional and could easily track down such animals.
12:19 Three years later, by the way, in 1910, he killed the Panner leopard which killed around
12:23 400 people.
12:24 It didn't take Corbett long to track down the Champawat tiger.
12:28 The predator had killed a 16-year-old girl in the town and left a trail of blood and
12:33 limbs which Corbett followed.
12:35 After the renowned hunter spotted the animal, he shot it dead without hesitation.
12:40 The residents of the nearby villages and town canonized Jim Corbett for putting an end to
12:45 a horrible massacre.
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